Golos Respubliki

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Dear President Nazarbayev: The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the ongoing crackdown against dozens of news outlets that appears aimed at driving national independent and opposition media in Kazakhstan into extinction.

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New
York, December 6, 2012--A court in Kazakhstan has banned an independent news
outlet on charges of extremism, a ruling that comes within weeks of the country's
election to the U.N. Human Rights Council, according to news reports. Dozens of
other independent and opposition news outlets face similar charges that could result
in their being shut down.

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New
York, November 28, 2012--The politicized prosecution of dozens of independent
news outlets in Kazakhstan is at odds with the country's commitment to press
freedom and deeply stains its recent election to the U.N.
Human Rights Council, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ
calls on Kazakh authorities to dismiss the case and allow the outlets to
operate freely.

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New York, May 17, 2011--The Committee to Protect
Journalists is appalled by the refusal of a regional prosecutor in Uralsk,
western Kazakhstan, to investigate a threatening callagainst Alla
Zlobina, a regional correspondent for the embattled independent weekly Golos
Respubliki. Zlobina's daughter was also intimidated. CPJ calls upon
regional authorities to thoroughly probe the incidents and bring those
responsible to justice.

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New York, February 4, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a court order issued on Monday that banned all Kazakh media and printing houses from publishing “any information that discredits the honor and dignity” of President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s son-in-law, a high-ranking energy executive.